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Mathematicians born on this day:
1667 : Abraham de Moivre |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1833 : William Morgan |
| Abraham de Moivre | William Morgan | Otto Neugebauer |
Otto Neugebauer (1899 - 1990)
It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.
Quoted in C B Boyer, A History of Mathematics (New York 1968)
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